Gidimt’en Checkpoint
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Strong Wet’suwet’en peoples - utilizing, occupying, and protecting our traditional UNCEDED territories. #WetsuwetenStrong #AllOutForWedzinkwa #ShutDownCanada
Joined January 2019
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Yesterday, we took our land back.
With our Haudenosaunee allies, we enforced our ancient trespass laws and have permanently closed access to our territory. The Morice Forest Service Road has been destroyed and access to Coastal Gaslink is no longer possible.
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Gidimt’en Checkpoint stands in solidarity with Palestine. We demand justice for the genocide of ALL people and remember the genocide against our own people. History is repeating itself and it’s up to the people of the world, From Wedzin Kwah to the sea.
#FreePalestine
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"CONTENT WARNING: POLICE VIOLENCE.
Violent RCMP Raid on Unarmed Gidimt'en Checkpoint
#AllOutForWedzinKwa
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WET’SUWET’EN people are once again in control of Wet’suwet’en yintah! Dinï ze’ Woos asserts jurisdiction by enforcing our laws with the 2021 Evacuation Order. The Morice River FSR has been disabled, blocking trespassers from our yintah!
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#RCMP
violently raided Coyote Camp on unceded Gidimt’en territory, Nov 19, 2021, removing
#Wetsuweten
women from their land at gunpoint on behalf of TC Energy’s proposed Coastal GasLink pipeline.
#ShutDownCanada
#AllOutForWedzinKwa
#WetsuwetenStrong
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BREAKING PHOTOS - Dozens of heavily armed RCMP breaching
@Gidimten
checkpoint. There are 15 confirmed arrests, including two Wet'suwet'en elders, 3 Haudenosaunee, 3 legal observers and one journalist.
Coyote Camp continues to block CGL's drilling.
📷: Dan Loan
#ShutDownCanada
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We are upholding our responsibility to defend our sacred headwaters and put an end to the destruction of the Yintah.
We will never give up.
Join the resistance and come to the yintah.
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URGENT UPDATE - Dozens of RCMP have deployed onto Wet'suwet'en territory
A charter plane full of RCMP have landed at the Smithers airport, with between 30 and 50 officers equipped with camo duffel bags.
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Two trans women of colour, one of whom is Northern Cree, arrested in
#RCMP
raid of
#Wetsuweten
territory still being held in men's side of prison against their wishes, denied medication for 24+ hours. Both maintain arrests were unlawful.
#FreeThemAll
#ShutDownCanada
#FreeSleydo
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RCMP have been entering our village several times each day to harass, surveil, intimidate, and threaten our guests. When police came to her home at 4am, Auntie Janet confronted the officers and kicked them out of our camp.
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In the middle of a climate emergency, as highways & roads are being washed away & entire communities are being flooded and evacuated, the Province has chosen to send busloads of police to criminalize Wet'suwet'en water protectors and to work as a mercenary force for oil and gas.
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BREAKING - Gidimt'en Clan Evicts CGL from Drill Site; Re-Occupies Coyote Camp
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URGENT UPDATE:
The drill they will use to destroy Wedzin Kwa is now in place.
We will never stop defending our yintah the way our ancestors have done for thousands of years. We need all your support now to ensure it will never be functional.
#theTimeisNOW
#WeAreAllOne
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UPDATE: RCMP denying medication for Wet'suwet'en elders
RCMP turned around a Wet'suwet'en woman carrying heart medication for a Wet'suwet'en Cas Yikh elder.
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UPDATE FROM COYOTE CAMP INVASION 2021
15 supporters have been arrested, all for breaches of the injunction. No criminal charges. They will be brought to Smithers for bail hearings tomorrow.
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We will not back down.
We need all eyes on Wet'suwet'en Yintah.
We need boots on the ground.
We need solidarity actions throughout Canada.
#ShutDownCanada
#AllOutForWedzinKwa
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BREAKING – RCMP INVASION EXPECTED ON WET’SUWET’EN TERRITORY
#ShutDownCanada
#AllOutForWedzinKwa
#WetsuwetenStrong
For the fourth time in four years, we have received information that dozens of militarized RCMP are en route to Wet’suwet’en territory…
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Press Release: Facebook suspends hundreds of accounts associated with online event targeting Coastal GasLink Pipeline investor
@KKR_co
in solidarity with
#Wetsuweten
Facebook is trying to silence us in our fight and take away our freedom of speech.
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1/ “You can’t push the Wet’suwet’en around!” and “This is Chief Woos’ territory!” can be heard as our
#Haudenosaunee
relatives send the RCMP retreating from their daily harassment patrol at Coyote Camp.
#AllOutforWedzinKwa
#WeAreAllOne
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URGENT UPDATE - We've just heard that a huge convoy - two shuttle buses and 40 vehicles including RCMP - are headed up towards Coyote Camp. The radios are being jammed as well.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Wet'suwet'en Evict Coastal Gaslink From Drill Site; Re-Establish Coyote Camp
Dec 20, 2021 - Unceded Gidimt'en Territory, Smithers (BC):
Gidimt'en land defenders and supporters have once again evicted CGL workers from a key pipeline drill site... (cont'd)
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The RCMP attempted to come in to Coyote Camp and failed, for the first time since they were walked out by our Haudenosaunee relatives.
We will not allow it. We can not. Our responsibilities are too great.
#AllOutForWedzinKwa
#COP26
#TogetherForOurPlanet
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As busloads of RCMP move towards Coyote Camp, roadblocks are being fortified at 63km on Cas Yikh territory. We will not back down.
The time to take action in defense of Wet'suwet'en lands and waters is NOW. It's time to
#ShutDownCanada
#AllOutForWedzinKwa
Photos:
@m_tol
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1/ RCMP Dump Drinking Water at
#CoyoteCamp
Officer Charney clearly enjoys his job. Here we see him emptying water cisterns yesterday and threatening to arrest anyone that tries to stop him.
#RCMPofftheYintah
#AllOutForWedzinKwa
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With plane-loads of cops on the way, Coyote Camp executed a strategic retreat to avoid police violence and criminalization. Cops are left with an empty camp.
We will continue to fight Coastal GasLink, but can not do so if all of our warriors are taken as political prisoners.
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"The Haida Nation stands firmly with the Gidimt’en Clan as they uphold Wet’suwet’en law in opposition of the Coastal Gaslink pipeline project on their territory."
#WetsuwetenStrong
#AllOutForWedzinKwa
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#FREESLEYDO
’! Today, militarized
#RCMP
arrested Gidimt’en Spokesperson Sleydo’, Dinϊ Ze' Woos’ daughter, & several other unarmed Indigenous land defenders, on behalf
#CoastalGasLink
pipeline. Media and comms were cut. All eyes on
#Wetsuweten
!
#AllOutForWedzinKwa
!
#ShutDownCanada
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Corey Jayohcee Jocko and Jocey Alec (Chief Woos' daughter) have been released. They described their experience as being tortured, kidnapped, and held hostage. The home they were living in has been bulldozed and burned down by Coastal GasLink.
#ShutDownCanada
#WetsuwetenStrong
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We are so blessed with the arrival of our Haida allies, sent by the Council of the Haida Nation. They brought medicines, food, supplies and donations.
It was a beautiful time to share songs, meals,do ceremony. It was just what our hearts need right now.
Misiyh/Howaa
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"We live under
#Wetsuweten
law! Not Canada!"
Excerpt from live video of ongoing RCMP raid on
@Gidimten
checkpoint
#Wetswetenstrong
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1/ Today, on National Indigenous Peoples Day, we want to bring everyone’s attention to the yintah. On a day when many politicians will be out showing their faces at events meant to celebrate our culture they only subscribe to when it serves them.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Wet’suwet’en Water Protectors Evade RCMP as Police Mobilize For Raid
January 4th, 2022 – Unceded Gidimt’en Territory, Smithers (BC):
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WARNING: This video contains graphic images of an armed threat on the lives of land defenders Denzel Sutherland-Wilson (Gitxsan) and Anne Spice (Tlingit). It may be traumatic for many to see. But we feel strongly that it should be available to witness.
#WetsuwetenStrong
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Since last week the BC RCMP have been denying access to Wet’suwet’en people at 27km on the Morice Forest Service Road. Our people have every right and responsibility to be on our own lands. A right that has never been extinguished and land that has never been ceded.
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URGENT UPDATE FROM SLEYDO' on the ongoing RCMP raid on Gidimt'en Checkpoint
#AllOutForWedzinKwa
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Prior to arrest, Sleydo’ stated: “We will never abandon our children to live in a world with no clean water...There will be no pipelines on Wet'suwet'en territory.”
#WetsuwetenStrong
#AllOutForWedzinKwa
#ShutDownCanada
#FreeSleydo
#Wetsuweten
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First Nations leaders in Alberta say the response to protesters opposing vaccine mandates who have blockaded the U.S. border near the Alberta village of Coutts is proof of a racist double standard in the way protest is handled in the province,
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This morning, July 28 2022, Coastal GasLink announced they will not be pursuing civil contempt charges against the remaining 6 land defenders arrested at Coyote Camp on November 19th 2021.
#AllOutForWedzinKwa
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1/UPDATE - RCMP Are Blocking Food And Medical Supplies From Wet'suwet'en Homes
The RCMP are openly violating the human rights of the Wet'suwet'en people again.
(THREAD)
#RCMPofftheYintah
#AllOutForWedzinKwa
#WetsuwetenStrong
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Woos reflects on Colonial violence
In the words of Hereditary Chief Woos', "What is violence? A loaded gun pointed at your head."
#WetsuwetenStrong
#AllOutForWedzinKwa
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As a militarized RCMP tactical team was descending on Coyote Camp, Unist'oten house members held ceremony at the riverbank of Wedzin Kwa, sending their voices and prayers downstream for the protection of their Cas Yikh neighbours and relatives.
#AllOutForWedzinKwa
#ShutDownCanada
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Who are the
#Wetsuweten
and why are Indigenous People in Canada blocking railroad tracks? Watch this video for answers
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RCMP have been coming into Coyote Camp daily for the past few days. Yesterday they came in, joked about genocide & how they can’t wait to see it all on social media.
Tomorrow is day one of the Week of Action! Solidarity is needed. Take action where you are!
#AllOutForWedzinKwa
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RCMP have established an illegal "exclusion zone" at 28km on Gidimt'en land and are blocking Wet'suwet'en people, hereditary chiefs, food, medical supplies, and journalists.
Today, a Wet'suwet'en woman was blocked while trying to deliver heart medicine for a Cas Yikh elder.
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This morning Cas Yikh enforced the eviction to Coastal GasLink. CGL was given 8 hours to evacuate the yintah.
CGL has been trespassing and violating our laws for too long. We will continue to uphold our laws! Join us.
#AllOutForWedzinKwah
#WetsuwetenStrong
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12:40pm, Nov 19, 2021: Tiny House breached w/ axe and K9 unit by
#RCMP
on behalf of
#CoastalGasLink
. Cabin breached w/ chainsaw. Unarmed Indigenous women in both structures. No warrants. Heavy machinery, assault weapons. Media, communications blocked.
#Wetsuweten
#shutdowncanada
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“I do not see any reconciliation in this. For our brothers and sisters of all Indigenous organizations, let this be a sign that reconciliation in their eyes is really the white paper in disguise.” -Dinϊ Ze’ Woos
#WetsuwetenStrong
#AllOutForWedzinKwa
#ShutDownCanada
#FreeSleydo
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Unarmed water protectors being violently arrested on their traditional lands! Media & comms blackout enforced by
#RCMP
at gunpoint. All eyes on
#Wetsuweten
now. 🔥✊🌎PLEASE AMPLIFY
@LeoDiCaprio
@GretaThunberg
@SusanSarandon
@NaomiAKlein
@TheElliotPage
#ShutDownCanada
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Getting reports that there are heavy equipment, RCMP, CGL security on both ends of Cas Yikh yintah. Bulldozer was chasing people. Will attempt to keep updated on the latest here. We need all the support and noise you can make right now to keep our people safe!
#AllOutForWedzinKwa
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Everyone at 39 km has been arrested, including peaceful witnesses and observers. This in the pitch black of night as the sun is just rising now in Wet’suwet’en yintah. Prayers up and light your fires. 44 km is next.
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Sleydo' speaks about the strategic retreat of Coyote Camp, as RCMP mobilize to invade unceded
#Wetsuweten
land again: "Our warriors are not here to be arrested. Our warriors are here to protect the land and water and will continue to do so at all cost."
#AllOutForWedzinKwa
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1/ The news of an Indigenous land defender jailed for defending their own territory should be concerning to all citizens as this is in direct contradiction with “reconciliation” and the governments commitments to UNDRIP, adopted into fed and prov law!
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Police loaded onto two buses and unmarked, rental pick-up trucks and headed out towards the yintah. An RCMP helicopter is reported to be heading to the area.
Throughout today, helicopters have circled over our camps, conducting low, deliberate flights for surveillance.
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Wet'suwet'en people have never surrendered this land, and we never will. Our lands are not for sale, and the safety of our waters is non-negotiable.
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The road into our yintah remains blocked by RCMP at 28km, with hereditary chiefs, food, and medical supplies being turned away.
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#RCMP
continue to harass & arrest
#Wetsuweten
people & their supporters on Wet'suwet'en territory. Earlier today a supporter was getting much needed firewood for Gidimt'en camp when that person was threatened with arrest for getting it without a permit on 'crown land.'
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1/ Railroad tracks blocked in
#Quebec
in solidarity with
#Wetsuweten
land defenders
#AllOutForWedzinKwa
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In a third letter to Canada, on April 29th, 2022, the United Nations Committee to End all forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) said they're concerned that Canada and British Columbia had “escalated their use of force, surveillance, and criminalization of land defenders"
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We are not surprised.
Ottawa police can't confiscate water.
Yet RCMP made a point of dumping out the water of
#Wetsuweten
camped on a remote pipeline worksite.
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A Cas Yikh matriarch who was denied access to medication by RCMP yesterday was today arrested and brought by ambulance to the hospital in Smithers with chest pains
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11:50 am, Nov 18. 4 arrests made at 44K, including 2 indigenous elders. Janet Williams is our elder and she was denied access to her medication by the illegal RCMP exclusion zone. She will need her medication in jail.
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Love and strength to the Indigenous youth who were arrested today for calling out
@RBC
as a funder of genocide. 🔥
#FuckTheVPD
#ShutDownCanada
#RCMPofftheYintah
#CGLofftheYintah
#ExpectUs
#AllOutForWedzinKwa
#Indigenous
youth & supporters are currently occupying RBC at Dunsmuir & Burrard St in Vancouver calling for
#RCMPofftheYintah
&
#NoPipelines
on stolen lands in solidarity with
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Our allies came together in GItxsan lax'yip in a show of solidarity! We are so grateful to our Haida and Gitxsan relatives for all the support. Relationships are strong and determination to seeing sovereignty and mutual aid between nations is powerful!
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RCMP violently invaded unceded
#Wetsuweten
territory at 4:30am this morning. NO ONE was blocking the road, NO ONE was violating any injunction. Dozens of cops with dogs and assault rifles were used to arrest 6 unarmed people.
#Westuwetenstrong
Support:
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“For months, Coastal GasLink has stopped us from accessing our own land to monitor pipeline work. Now we know what they were hiding,” said Tsebesa, a chief in the Likhts’amisyu (Fireweed) clan who flew into Lho Kwa by helicopter to monitor her territory.
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This is reminiscent of when Indigenous people couldn’t raise money for lawyers to defend ourselves from colonization. We were jailed for practising our culture and laws. Oh wait. We still are.
Today
@GoFundMe
shut down our fundraiser for a longhouse on wheels, before we had a chance to launch it.
The "Landback mobile command centre" was to be a distribution point for food, supplies and educational material that we could tow around the Gitxsan villages.
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Civil Suit Update:
The RCMP have refused to respond to our lawsuit. So, our lawyers have provided legal notice that we intend to apply for a default decision against the RCMP.
See full update on our website
#RCMPofftheYintah
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#RCMP
are now blocking access to
#Wetsuweten
territory, and only allowing hereditary chiefs that THEY approve to enter our own unceded lands.
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We need boots on the ground and all eyes on Wet’suwet’en territory as we continue to stand up for our lands, our waters, and our future generations! If you can’t be here, take action where you stand – at investors’ offices, RBC branches, or your local police detachment.
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The sun has just gone down and the cowardly RCMP are advancing on Unistot’en in the dark to avoid video footage of what they are about to do. RISE UP! If our people won’t sleep tonight nobody will!
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Early this morning, a fire was set on the road and CGL work was stopped. Another two arrests were made on Gidimt'en territory, for a growing total of 34 arrests in the last several weeks. That makes 36 arrests since Coyote Camp was established on Sept 25th, 2021.
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Do you understand the “frustration” of your ceremonies being bulldozed? Semi-automatic weapons in your face? Your backyard being dug up without consent? Your mom, aunties, nieces being tied up and carried away on a dolly? Seriously, this was just last week, nvm historical traumas
My statement on the protests at the legislature & in communities throughout BC 🔽
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This is a violation of the Delgamuukw ruling, of UNDRIP, and of human rights.
The RCMP, on the orders of CGL, are denying Indigenous people access to their own territory and to necessary supplies and medication.
Tell them this is wrong. Call your representatives.
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Thanks to a group of matching donors, the first $6,000 today will be matched, so pls donate & share.
#WetsuwetenStrong
#AllOutForWedzinKwa
#ShutDownCanada
#FreeThemAll
#FreeSleydo
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Early Sunday, Gidimt'en land defenders evicted Coastal Gaslink workers and re-established control of Coyote Camp, the site where Coastal Gaslink plans to drill beneath Wet'suwet'en headwaters.
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Last night 4
@rcmpgrcpolice
interrupted ceremony during a 3rd harassment visit of the day. Sleydo' escorted them out with our
#wetsuwetenstrong
war song.
"It didn't have to come to this" the lyrics say.
She was followed home & ticketed for "illegible plates".
#rcmpofftheyintah
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Lekwungen territory
Highway 17 currently blocked in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en and all land defenders arrested 🔥
“SOLIDARITY FROM DAYSTAR AND CREW. RCMP OFF THE YINTAH
FREE ALL ARRESTED LAND DEFENDERS!
Kisakihitin ❤”
#WetsuwetenStrong
#ShutDownCanada
#AllOutForWedzinKwa
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The media likes to create confusion telling the world that indigenous nations approve the
#CoastalGaslink
pipeline. This is not true. This video helps explain
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In January, RCMP told reporters they had no plans to raid
#Wetsuweten
lands for the 4th time in 4 years.
They lied.
Files obtained by
@APTNNews
show cops planned another raid, and have spent nearly a million more dollars to protect Coastal Gaslink:
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Today in Burns Lake, on Laksilyu clan yintah, the RCMP wagon carrying arrested land defenders and reporters en route to the Prince George prison intentionally drove into a crowd of Indigenous people in a crosswalk knocking a Wet'suwet'en elder to the ground.
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Yesterday the Crown prosecution decided to pursue criminal contempt charges against everyone that was arrested at Gidimt’en Checkpoint village site (15) including legal observers. The criminalization of Indigenous land defenders goes against our inherent rights and title.
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“Whatever man builds, breaks… You can’t warranty a pipeline…This for our grandchildren, and great great grandchildren, and those not even born yet. That’s who we’re doing this for.” - Dinï ze’ Madeek
photo credit
@arvinoutsude
#WetsuwetenStrong
#AllOutForWedzinKwa
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On the day of the illegal militarized raid on Coyote Camp Dinï ze’ Woos, along with media, were blocked from accessing unceded
#Wetsuweten
land. Meanwhile the RCMP facilitated unfettered access of the territory to
#CoastalGasLink
.
#AllOutForWedzinKwa
#ShutDownCanada
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Tonight: an Indigenous man was shot in Mi’qmaki (so called “New Brunswick”), and a Black man was shot in Atlanta Georgia. This isn’t going to stop, unless we collectively MAKE IT STOP.
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We know the colonizer's worst fear is that we unite and fight together. This pipeline will not go through. We will never give up.
#AllOutForWedzinKwa
#LandBack
#WeAreOne
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Note to self...tell all of our “protestors”, who have taken the time out of their lives, away from their families, away from their jobs, to stand outside in the coldest, darkest days and nights of winter to stand up for what is right, to check their privilege 🙄
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Today, February 14th 2022, a day that we honour and remember all our relatives that go missing and are found murdered, our land defenders are attending court for upholding Wet’suwet’en law.
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The devastation to our toh (water) and yintah (land) is immeasurable. This is toh we drink. This is where the salmon start their lives. This is our sacred headwaters that feed EVERYONE downstream all the way to the west coast.
#AllOutForWedzinKwa
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BREAKING: There are 7 RCMP vehicles at the drill pad site and they are torturing a person that is locked down underneath the bus.
The do not have proper tools, they are just pulling on the person and trying to use pain compliance to get them out.
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Illegal Arrest of Sleydo’s Husband, Cody Merriman (Haida Nation)
After the arrest of Sleydo’, Cody was observing police activity at Gidimt’en Checkpoint and was arrested while documenting with a live FB video. (1/3)
#FreeThemAll
#AllOutForWedzinKwa
#ShutDownCanada
#FreeSleydo
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1/2 URGENT UPDATE from Molly Wickham at Wet'suwet'en Access Point on Gidimt'en Territory as the RCMP raid was getting started
ALL EYES ON WETSUWETEN TERRITORY!
#WetsuwetenStrong
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CALL TO ACTION:
#Wetsuweten
land defenders need you to take action NOW. Reconciliation will not come at the barrel of a gun. Visit for info.
#FreeSleydo
#ShutDownCanada
#WetsuwetenStrong
#AllOutForWedzinKwa
#KILLINIT
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We know that we are stronger united. That is why the enemy is always trying to divide us. We won’t let them.
All our allies and relatives know what we are up against and you all showed our collective strength in the past. We are all powerful people.
Join us.
#WeAreAllOne
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3:25pm, Nov 19, 2021: 4 more arrests confirmed at 44km in Gidimt'en territory. Unlawful arrests, no criminal charges.
#RCMP
clearing checkpoint for
#CGL
pipeline.
#wetsuwetenstrong
#Wetsuweten
#ShutDownCanada
#AllOutForWedzinKwa
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In early 2020, Hereditary Chiefs from all five clans of our nation stood together and issued an eviction to CGL. That eviction remains in force today.
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Holidays at Coyote Camp❄️✨
November 18th, 2021 marked the first day of a two-day militarized raid on Gidimt’en territory to violently push forward Coastal GasLink's LNG pipeline. One month later land defenders retook Coyote Camp!
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The Wet’suwet’en have never given up and we never will. Rise up our brothers and sisters and live your laws too. We believe in you. We are all the answer to our ancestors’ prayers.
Call to action:
#wetsuwetenstrong
#landback
#44forever
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